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#1

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

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#2

“Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent. This is a myth perpetuated by disablism and driven by capitalism - we are all actually interdependent. Chances are, disabled or not, you don’t grow all of your food. Chances are, you didn’t build the car, bike, wheelchair, subway, shoes, or bus that transports you. Chances are you didn’t construct your home. Chances are you didn’t sew your clothing (or make the fabric and thread used to sew it). The difference between the needs that many disabled people have and the needs of people who are not labelled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized. The world has been built to accommodate certain needs and call the people who need those things independent, while other needs are considered exceptional. Each of us relies on others every day. We all rely on one another for support, resources, and to meet our needs. We are all interdependent. This interdependence is not weakness; rather, it is a part of our humanity.”
― A.J. Withers

tags: disability, prejudice, sociology

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#3

“While our life remains more chaotic than not, we continue to land on our blistered feet, drag each other out of the quicksand, beg for forgiveness as we wander out of the doghouse, and dig for the humor beneath our grief. So our family, four-pawed members included, continues to bound forward celebrating our canine connection and sharing hope with all who need healing.”
― Donnie Kanter Winokur

tags: adoption, disability, inspirational, parenting, service-dogs

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#4

“He tried to kill me," I said, not because I thought I could trust Caius, but more because I didn't have anyone else to tell.
Caius opened his eyes again, and I could see the milky outline of his bad eye through the fall of his hair.
"Oh, my dear," he said. "I know.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

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#5

“Alcibiades held on to him in the same way he held on to all beautiful things- as though her were somewhat afraid of their beauty.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

tags: beauty

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#6

“They've made him into a deity,' I told Alcibiades, my eyes wide with wonder.
'No,' Alcibiades replied. 'They've made him into a god.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

tags: deity, gods, worship

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#7

“You can pretend it's a play,' I told him. 'Such small things do not anger the gods. Plays only anger the mortal men who watch them”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

tags: anger, deity, gods

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#8

“They also knew that the most frightening Talent was that which required no fanfare at all, that which slipped unnoticed to lie beside you at night and whispered hello from the other side of the pillow.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

tags: fear, magic, talent

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#9

“For those of my generation, the war had been a fact of life since birth. Many had assumed it would end at our deaths, and not before that. So for a great number of people, perhaps even all of us, the end of the war had meant a feeling of confusion and dissatisfaction. No one knew his place in life without the war to give it structure. We were all like the tigers, turned loose in the city streets and found again a bare day later, hiding ourselves in familiar, small spaces. It was all that we knew- a way of life better suited to us than freedom.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

tags: confusion, freedom, life, peace, war

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#10

“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to the element of surprise, and flung myself out into the mirrored hallway where, as Temur had explained, at least six men would be waiting for me.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

tags: element-of-surprise, fight, surprise

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#11

“Fighting you's the only reward I want,' I said, 'for saving your life.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

tags: fight, fighting, reward, saving-lives

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#12

“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would be all right; I knew it deep in my bones. But for the moment it stood between us and our escape, and I was as frightened of it as I had been of the Volstov dragons. It was on the same scale and, beyond that, it meant just as much- a cruel, stark metaphor, the symbol of oppression.
And yet it was only a wall.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

tags: escape, fear, metaphor, oppression, wall, walls

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#13

“But I hated the Emperor of the Ke-Han with everything I had in me, for every man I'd lost and every friend who'd died, for every story I'd known was false but had allowed to harden my heart against the enemy anyway.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, emperor, empire, enemy, hate, loss, propaganda, war

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#14

“Servants do not speak at all, so how can I ever hope to speak as one?”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

tags: servant, servants, speak, speech

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#15

“To have a purpose in life was a wealth that could never be measured.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: purpose, purpose-of-life, sense-of-purpose, wealth

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#16

“Besides, rats survived so well because they were rats. They knew when to keep quiet and they knew when to squeal.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: fight-back, keep-quiet, quiet, rats, survival, survive

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#17

“He smelled a little strange, sweet and bitter at the same time, the way madness might have smelled if it could've taken a physical form.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: description, insanity, madness, scent, smell

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#18

“I have never been one to ignore the signs. Unless, of course, it works in my favor.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: destiny, favor, odds, omens, signs

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#19

“You could approach someone worlds apart from you by offering them, like a handshake, a simple truth from their own lives.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: getting-to-know-someone, handshake, meeting, offering, truth

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#20

“You can tell Rook his statue's become something like the patron saint for Our Lady, and you can see whores there night and day, praying for safe childbirth and protection from diseases and the like. Though why they think he's the man to go to for that kind of help is beyond me. Just thought he might like to know there're whores on their knees in front of them- so I guess that goes back to what I was saying about things never changing.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: change, patron, pray, prayer, prostitution, saints, sex, whores, worship

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#21

“You are a woman; this is your body. You are beholden to no one, Ke-Han or Volstovic.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: bodily-autonomy

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#22

“She isn't anybody's,' Rook said darkly.
'Son. she's not yours, either," Sarah Fleet said.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: autonomy, belonging

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#23

“She'd have no purpose in a world like this one,' I explained. 'Not now. Even if we did rebuild her-and if I thought we could, if I thought that would make you both happy...' I shook my head. 'In any case, with all that being beside the point, she'd be too big for how things stand in Thremedon now. So, the only other alternative would be to make her smaller- take that same spark she had, reduce her to something tiny enough to fit in your pocket, or in the palm of your hand. And that's all wrong too, isn't it? She wouldn't be the same. What you might have thought you could do- return to a time and place when the war was still being fought, when the Corps was still trying to win- it would require a different sort of magician. I don't think there's ever been one that powerful.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: magic, meaning, peace, purpose, recovery, war

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#24

“In the court of Madoka, people who preyed on and stole from the poor and helpless deserved to be buried from the neck down and left to die in the desert while the birds picked out their eyes.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: deserve, deserved-it, fantasy, justice, privilege, taking-advantage, vigilante-justice

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#25

“Keep your eyes down and don't speak unless you're spoken to were the only two rules a servant had to follow, and those just so happened also to be the basics of espionage.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: espionage, fantasy, rules, servant, spy, spying

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#26

“And when were theories useless? I was a thinker, not a fighter, and the world was always in need of thoughts.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: fantasy, fighter, theory, thinker, world

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#27

“Kalim respected me and I respected him, for the sole reason Rook did not respect me, because we were very different.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: difference, disrespect, fantasy, fiction, respect

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#28

“This ain't beauty,' Rook said, and spat savagely- grossly- downwind. "Just some nasty shadows masquerading.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: beauty, falacy, fantasy, fiction

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#29

“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for a memento. Something to stick up on your mantelpiece so you can look at it and remember a time when you were actually of use to the world around you, when you were more than relevant-
when you were necessary. But you've got no imagination, no idea of the power contained in something like that. You can only see what it was: a part of an antique, as useless and outdated as the broken statues you passed along your way. But we... we have true vision. We're the ones who will take the potential nearly destroyed by the likes of you, nearly lost to the desert or even shattered by your own hand, and put it to a better use.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

tags: fantasy, fiction, memento, peace, recovery, remembrance, sentimental, war

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#30

“I wouldn't even stoop so low as to pull the same trick on him he's pulled on me, because my girl was better than that. If you killed scum, you were scum. It was good enough for me but she was too good for it- too good for me- and always had been.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

tags: fantasy, fiction, good, kill, trick

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